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Models start going to extreme, damaging lengths to achieve ambiguous prompts[0]. Having good sandboxes is now a must IMO. But sbx is a bit annoying to use with OpenCode for instanc…

I maintain this meta-benchmark leaderboard: https://metabench.organisons.com/ With this new price change, Terra does look pretty Pareto’ed by Luna. On agentic coding, pairing Sol M…

Composer 2.5 finetuned Kimi K2.5[0]. In the blog post, it is unclear whether Grok 4.5 is also a finetune on top of Kimi; they do imply it is also a finetune. > Training included tr…

Iridum gains 23 launches per year with 100% success rate in the past 12 months, a satellite manufacturing pipeline with 6 satellites produced and launched, and a cost-to-orbit of $…

I see it mean two things: 1. Indeed, Google is compute-constrained, and is ready to buy any it can. 2. xAI (now SpaceXAI) has a lot of idle compute, which it resells to Cursor, Ant…

I use Le Chat as default search engine, using this search engine string: https://chat.mistral.ai/chat?q=Give%20a%20list%20of%20links%... (In most browsers, you can input any URL wi…

His goal could simply be to learn SOTA architectures. When rumors started that GPT-4 design would be kept secret, he likely wanted to know what architecture it would be. Perhaps he…

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Could you link to a project that you consider the best Tailwind use you know? I have a bias against Tailwind, admittedly because I saw some vibecoded Tailwind where each class was …

> A portable battery should be considered to be removable by the end-user when it can be removed with the use of commercially available tools and without requiring the use of speci…

How much did this pretraining run cost? I am impressed that it is now practical to do such efforts. Let me try a guess for the cost; please fact-check it if you can. They indicate …

I have a rebuttal to your rebuttal. Models somehow have a shared identity. Pretraining causes them to generate “AI chatbot” as a concept, and finetuning causes them to identify wit…

Input: Following overhiring during COVID, we are laying off workers but claim it is because of AI. As we continue to evolve in this rapidly shifting landscape, we are making the di…

Interestingly, while it uses diffusion, it generates incorrect information, and it doesn't fix it when later in the text it realizes that it is incorrect: > The snail you’re likely…

AI companies have two conflicting interests: 1. curating the default personality of the bot, to ensure it acts responsively; 2. letting it roleplay, which is not just for the paras…

It is quite impressive. I have seen the same impressive performance about 7 months ago here: https://kyutai.org/stt If I look at the architecture of Voxtral 2, it seems to take a p…

Does Apple develop a competing search engine?

Counterpoint: iOS’s biggest competitor is Android. They are now effectively funding their competition on a core product interface. I see this as strategically devastating.

My bar for super-rough is Servo, which doesn't have password autofill… and doesn't render the Orion page right. Orion is less rough, but the color scheme doesn't work, and it doesn…

Good question. There's 2 points to consider. • For both Kimi K2 and for Sonnet, there's a non-thinking and a thinking version. Sonnet 4.5 Thinking is better than Kimi K2 non-thinki…

Two aspects to consider: 1. Chinese models typically focus on text. US and EU models also bear the cross of handling image, often voice and video. Supporting all those is additiona…

Indeed. A mouse that runs through a maze may be right to say that it is constantly hitting a wall, yet it makes constant progress. An example is citing Mr Sutskever's interview thi…

That makes sense. Why RVQ though, rather than using the raw VAE embedding? If I compare rvq-without-quantization-v4.png with rvq-2-level-v4.png, the quality seems oddly similar, bu…

> DeepSeek models cost more to use than comparable U.S. models They compare DeepSeek v3.1 to GPT-5 mini. Those have very different sizes, which makes it a weird choice. I would exp…

Input: $0.07 (cached), $0.56 (cache miss) Output: $1.68 per million tokens. https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news250929